Losing the Groove and owning beautiful ornaments

Hasie · 2018-07-01T09:55:42+00:00

Hey GuitarTalk friends, Today is just another day at the office on a weekend... Life. This may be a depressing topic, but I want to share. I started playing...

Losing the Groove and owning beautiful ornaments

warrenpridgeon

Another option is to try get more regular forum meetups happening. Here in the vaal some guys did a band meetup thing... They organised a drumkit, small PA and people just came and went throughout the day... Drummers took turns... Guitarists, bass guitarists etc all took turns. They organised it all via a whatsapp group.

NorioDS

warrenpridgeon for a while we piggy-backed off of @slowpoet's Meetup events. Those sounded like fun. Never went but I liked how Adrian organised the songs to practise, etc. Coz herding guitarists is not dissimilar to herding cats ?

Looks like the last one was October:
https://www.meetup.com/en-AU/Joburg-North-Recreational-Musicians/

@slowpoet, you keen to start these up again? I'll happily post about them in the newsletters.

Hasie

V8 Must a a rehearsal studio around there somewhere?

Gregory Wall has rehearsal space a few k's from my house. But if paying to use a space, then it needs to be worthwhile - structured.

NorioDS

Hasie I'd be interested in sponsoring that, depending on the costs. Keen to find out?

guidothepimmp

Definitely... just a thought on 7 strings.. i know budgets can be tight with a little one in the house. Not sure how many fiddles you have.. i just started messing with alternate tunings. Cheaper than shelling out dosh for a 7string which becomes a bit of a niche thing. E# for airbourne, E for normal stuff, E flat for a lot of the 80s rock and metal.. D.. drop C for those KSE moments lol...
Amps wise.. what always bothered me about low volume jamming.. the tine sucked. Sounded nothing like what I wanted.. and as a result.. because it didnt sound good.. i didnt like playing it. Enter the yamaha thr10. Bam.. instant rockout. These days.. there is the blackstar ID, yamahas, katana etc to chooose from.. but it really helped having a tiny amp that i could plug my mp3 into.. and jam along with authentic sound.. without irritating the guys in the next province

Gregs place is a storage locker with an elevated platform that has the drum kit. Not sure what he charges to use the space.

At some point we had a weekend warrior type jam going once a month or so . Was cool to just plug in and jam. But alas.. yrying to coordinate all the dads times became an issue.

guidothepimmp

Thinking about it.. if it became a relatively common occurrence to get together and jam.. it actually makes sense to hire a locker. Assume its R1000 a month.. split 6or 7 ways.. not much a month for a space.

Hasie

guidothepimmp True - I have not found a storage unit with electricity outlets yet, but haven't looked very far.
I do have a Blackstar IDCORE 10. It sound great, but I still like a room filled with sound for some reason. I may just have to get used to the headphones thing for now.

Due to limited space for cables/pedals and to hide it from the tiny curious hands every time after playing, I'm thinking about swinging all the pedals and Blackstar for something like a Zoom G3Xn and play with headphones. And if and when I want sound, just plug in the PC speakers or the soundbar.

slowpoet

I'd love to organise meetups, but I can't find a space to have it. Some place where people can make some noise (aka music) in private because it wouldn't be an open mic type thing. And where the (possible) drums don't drown everyone out. That doesn't cost too much.

Sadly the office that was helping us last year can't do so any longer.

NorioDS

slowpoet OK cool so let's see what Greg charges and then we can try that at least once, depending on the cost.

NorioDS

Ok so I spoke to Greg and started a new thread to discuss "Pretoria Garage Days" ? Go there to pitch in.

Hasie

V8 Doooooooo it! A few options spring to mind - Re-string one of your 6's with a heavier set - I did this last year, was a lot of fun! Went for a B low string and just left off the high e (since I'd hardly use it for nu-metal/djent grooves)

Yeah, I also did the thick string thing once. Only problem was, it did not fit into the grooves of the nut. I did not want to file the nut as thinner strings will then have to much "play" on them. But maybe i should file it. Most of stuff of Trivium or Amon Amarth is in a "drop ridiculous" tuning.

V8

Hasie Only problem was, it did not fit into the grooves of the nut. I did not want to file the nut as thinner strings will then have to much "play" on them.

When I stuck some baritone strings on my Cort, the bass strings did go over the nut, but I didn't have a issue with them popping out. You could always buy a spare nut to mod and keep the original, just in case. While I was tempted by a 7 (for about 5mins), I just couldn't get it my hand around my mates schecter 7's neck (let along the 8 stringer!). So a de-tuned 6 made sense. since I just wanted to have some fun.

Hasie Took a bit of digging but here it is - they are apparently legit, part of some stock that was seized by SARS last year. Lower end OMEN models, indonesian made (I think)

Hasie

V8 And there was a guy selling new Schechter's for R4500 - sure he's still got a few 7's.

who was this guy and how to I find him?